Assessing the Aftermath: the Effects of a Global Takedown against DDoS-for-hire Services
Anh V. Vu
34th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '25) · Day 2 · Network Security 2: Routing and DoS
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Rigorous empirical work on a question the security community hand-waves constantly: do takedowns actually work? The interrupted time series methodology, multi-dataset triangulation, and the six-week half-life finding give this real teeth — this is the kind of answer law enforcement and policymakers need to hear, even if they won't like it.